Then in 1996, archaeologists unearthed the Hyksos capital city at a site north of modern-day Cairo, Egypt. The city was founded in the 12th dynasty and quickly grew to become a large harbor city ...

Egyptologists think this dynasty filled a power vacuum between the collapse of the Middle Kingdom and the rise of the Hyksos and the Theban rulers. But no definitive list of these kings or their tombs ...

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The recently discovered severed hands were excavated from a site called Tell El-Dab (ancient Avaris) in the courtyard of a palace that seems to have been occupied by the Hyksos Khayan (c. 1700 ...

Severed human hands found in Egypt may have belonged to enemy warriors who were captured around 3,500 years ago, a gruesome new study shows.. Twelve hands were found in Hyksos palace in northern ...

The Hyksos controlled the north, but a separate dynasty was growing in the south, centered in Thebes and guided by powerful queens. (See also: Archaeologists uncover more than 800 tombs from the ...

The Hyksos king, who ruled Northern Egypt with a group of Asian shepherds, demanded that Seqenenre — who ruled Egypt's southern half — destroy the offending pool immediately.

The Hyksos are widely believed to have introduced the Egyptians to the horse and chariot, glass-working and all sorts of weaponry, including battle axes and composite bows.